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The soft-focus sound: reverb as a gendered attribute in mid-century mood music.
Hebenstreit liked to roll great billows of arpeggiated chords over the wide range of his instrument and to allow the full resonance of the undampened strings to die slowly on the listeners' ears. It was a new sensation at the time, and it seemed ravishing.
Arthur Loesser on Pantaleon Hebenstreit, exponent of the triple-strung dulcimer around the year 1700
IN 1783, the Broadwood Piano Company of London began incorporating into the design of its instruments a sustain pedal mechanism. The device allowed a performer to instantaneously raise all the dampers off the strings at any time; a rich resonant effect could be achieved even if the player depressed a ...
- `Surreal History' Of Mood Music Is an Easy Read
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Richard Harrington March 27, 1994 700+ words
...furniture music). Clearly a fan - Lanza writes that "Muzak and mood music are, in many respects, aesthetically superior to all other...implies, the book also offers an expansive survey of the mood music movement that was a major part of the record industry in the...
- Osborne's mushy mood music won't stop banks behaving badly - Oakeshott.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 9, 2009 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-9 June 2009-Liberal Democrats: Osborne's mushy mood music won't stop banks behaving badly - Oakeshott.(C)1994...to make it to Number 10. "If he believes that this mushy mood music will stop banks behaving badly, he knows even less about...
- Classics seen as `mood music'
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London DAVID LISTER June 25, 1994 700+ words
...and has led to the company releasing four compilation CDs of mood music - all excerpts from famous works - entitled Tranquility...EMI and large numbers said they bought classical music as mood music, either for dinner, to wind down and relax, to let off...
- Mood music.
- Magazine article from: Computer Act!ve May 17, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Anthony Dhanendran Mood music The Filter, a media player plug-in providing automatic recommendations of new music, is now available for Windows Media Player...
- Mood music for Halloween.(Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Lawrence, Keith October 20, 2000 700+ words
With Halloween just around the corner, you might want to dig through your bluegrass collection for some appropriate mood music. Here are a few suggestions. X X X "Bringing Mary Home" is guaranteed to put chill bumps on your chill bumps. In...
- Mood music 'should not need licence'.(Industry news)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Leisure Report October 1, 2003 700+ words
Pubs and bars using DJs to provide "mood music" should not have to apply for all entertainment licence once the new Licensing Act comes into force, according to Hamish Birchall...
- Lounge-itude: Mood Music Swings Back
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paula Span March 10, 1995 700+ words
...and-roll records were shoved to the back of the pile and all this exotica appeared," Reynolds reports. "Ray Conniff. Mood music." In fact, the old records that lounge lovers used to pick up in thrift shops for small change have grown exorbitantly...
- Pender's Magical Mood Music
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Peter Paul Fuchs June 27, 1989 700+ words
...The Four Songs on biblical text, aided by gutsy contralto Beverly Benso, were beautiful rhapsodies of musical and existential evanescence. The minimalist Quintet (1986) captured the glassy essence of modern mood music. @Slug: B03PEN